Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Color
#ebd0bd
#ebd0bd
hex
#ebd0bdrgb
rgb(235, 208, 189)hsl
hsl(25, 53%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.875 0.04 57.3)Closest name: Apricot Freeze (#f3cfb7)Relative luminance 0.6645
Colors that go with #ebd0bd
Charcoal, Lilac and Sky Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ebd0bd: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #ebd0bd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #ebd0bd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ebd0bd in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #ebd0bd in 4 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #ebd0bd in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #ebd0bd in 7 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedCobalt Blue is paired with #ebd0bd in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Oreo's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ebd0bd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ebd0bd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.47:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.29:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ebd0bd as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ebd0bd reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ebd0bd
live endpointPoint any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ebd0bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ebd0bd-c4b19c-62cbc4-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md